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Art Appreciation-Chapter5

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Painting Chapter 5

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Painting <ul><li>For many, art is painting </li></ul><ul><li>Painting is linked with drawing as drawing is often a preliminary step for a painting </li></ul><ul><li>Began with cave paintings made with pigments from plants and clays </li></ul>

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Surfaces <ul><li>Support-structure to hold the painting </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Wood panel, canvas, paper </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Sizing and priming-often a surface is smoothed and prepared to accept the paint </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Gesso is a mixture of glue and chalk applied to canvas before painting </li></ul></ul>

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Watercolor <ul><li>Pigments are bound with gum arabic and water is the vehicle </li></ul><ul><li>Watercolor is usually painted on rag paper </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Rag paper is absorbant and won’t disintegate in water </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Dries fast and it isn’t easy to correct mistakes </li></ul><ul><li>Opaque watercolor is called gouache </li></ul>

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Tempera <ul><li>Tempera is traditionally made with pigment eggs and water </li></ul><ul><li>Created a luminous and matte finish </li></ul><ul><li>Not easily blended or corrected </li></ul><ul><li>Often applied in many layers </li></ul><ul><li>Little used today </li></ul>

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Oil <ul><li>Pigment mixed with oil </li></ul><ul><li>Turpentine is used to thin oil paint </li></ul><ul><li>Method is attributed to Hubert and Jan van Eyck </li></ul><ul><li>Painted on gesso covered wood or canvas </li></ul><ul><li>Painted in layers from dark to light </li></ul><ul><li>Glaze is a thin translucent layer of varnish to give the painting depth and glossiness </li></ul><ul><li>Dries very slowly and is easily corrected, blended, and painted over </li></ul><ul><li>Impasto is oil paint applied very thickly </li></ul>

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Acrylic <ul><li>Made of pigment and acrylic polymer </li></ul><ul><li>Fast drying, long lasting </li></ul><ul><li>Can use water instead of turpentine to thin the paint </li></ul><ul><li>Harder to blend </li></ul>

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Fresco <ul><li>Buon fresco- pigment mixed with water is applied to a damp lime-plaster surface </li></ul><ul><li>A cartoon is usually made </li></ul><ul><ul><li>A full scale drawing that is transferred onto the area to be painted </li></ul></ul><ul><li>The lime-plaster has to be damp, so the artist can only paint a section at a time </li></ul><ul><li>Fresco seco-dry fresco-tempera paint is applied over the buon fresco to add color intensity </li></ul>